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Speaker 1: I am a known anti horror watcher. Yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: a good one. Question that that in and of itself

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Speaker 2: Winning solves everything. Happy Halloween, everybody. This is Tarren Walk

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Speaker 2: and welcome to the Friday Five. I am joined per

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Speaker 2: usual by Tory mcelhaney. Say Happy Halloween.

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Speaker 1: Happy Halloween everyone.

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Speaker 2: We are obviously missing Will McFadden today because he announced

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Speaker 2: this on Twitter, so I think I can do so too. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's a baby daddy of two, baby has two children.

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Speaker 1: A little boy, Cooper was born.

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Speaker 2: Yeah was it last week? It was on Sunday. He

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Speaker 2: was on Sunday game Day. Yeah, I actually say baby.

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Speaker 1: I actually feel bad because I definitely broke the news.

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Speaker 1: If you listen to our Final Whistle podcast, I definitely

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Speaker 1: off the top was like Will's not here because he

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Speaker 2: Childhoppers one not too great, I know, kind of scary.

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Speaker 2: You know what else is scary?

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Speaker 1: Halloween?

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Speaker 2: Yes, but I was gonna say the question of the day,

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Speaker 2: a question of the week, So socials asking the players,

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Speaker 2: what's the scariest movie you've seen?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I I am a known anti horror watcher. I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't like horror movies. I don't like scary movies.

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Speaker 1: If I'm gonna pay to watch something, I want to

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Speaker 1: don't want to pay to be scared unless I'm like

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Speaker 1: going to a haunted house, Like I don't care for

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Speaker 1: that stuff. That being said, the first horror movie that

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Speaker 1: The Unborn.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, and I.

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Speaker 1: Watched it on a softball trip. We're on a charter

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Speaker 2: I'm a lot like you, Like I can't do scary movies, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which is that in and of itself is a

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Speaker 2: I would say the scariest movie I've watched is A

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Speaker 2: I watched it I think in eighth grade, and I

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Speaker 1: Bed all week at that age. That's so sad.

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Speaker 2: Taran. Yeah, so we're gonna move on. Yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they will have better answers than what we did.

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Speaker 2: They might not be as scared as us, they might

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Speaker 2: Within three weeks, you went from first to eleventh. The

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Speaker 1: I mean it essentially is they don't win games. I

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Speaker 2: He said, deservingly so. And I can't remember the exact question.

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Speaker 1: It was something along the lines of, like everything all

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Speaker 1: I knew it was coming, Yes, I knew what it was.

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Speaker 1: That is a major red flag to me when you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And he said it himself too. Everything starts upfront.

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Speaker 1: Pain, nice good transition, thank you. Yeah, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 2: To be like, yeah, Terren, speaking of pain, let's talk

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Speaker 1: All of them and that include all day to day.

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Speaker 2: That includes here's the list of limited players, yep, Darnell Mooney,

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Speaker 1: It actually goes back to something that I think that

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Speaker 2: Yes this is Thursday. Make sure you're keeping up with

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Speaker 2: Was that a good one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a good one. Crushing it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. We talked about it last week on Final Whistle

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Speaker 2: He played sixty eight of the falcons sixty nine defensive snaps,

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Speaker 1: Right, because we only really saw it very sparingly where

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Speaker 2: Ronnie Harrison played fifteen to some defensive snaps twenty two percent,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a credit to who Divine Diablo turned

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Speaker 2: Right, And when you talk about a month, you do

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's night and day like it's not

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Speaker 1: I think a true indicator potentially of what the games

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Speaker 1: they're after could be for this team. If you don't

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Speaker 1: figure it out now, what gives anyone confidence that you'll

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Speaker 1: figure it out in the next month?

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Speaker 2: And that sets me up perfect for our final segment.

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Speaker 2: And it's not going to really be a topic but

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Speaker 2: a question. Okay, what are your top three things you

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Speaker 2: need to see the Falcons do to write this ship?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, first off, you gotta do it now. Like

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Speaker 1: I think that there has to be a sense of

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Speaker 1: urgency to all of the things that we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: You can't there are ten weeks left in this season

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Speaker 1: or ten games left in the season. You have to

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Speaker 1: go into him and be like, ultimately, if the Falcons

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Speaker 1: want to be NFC South champions, they almost have to

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Speaker 1: go like seven and three the next ten weeks. They

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Speaker 1: need to beat Tampa Bay, they need to beat Carolina,

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Speaker 1: they need to beat the Saints, and they hopefully and

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Speaker 1: they need to hope that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers something

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Speaker 1: happens and they falter. And so you can't look too

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Speaker 1: far ahead if you're the Falcons, But to a certain extent,

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Speaker 1: you got to fix what's been not working for you

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. And I think I have

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Speaker 1: to start with what we've talked about right off the

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Speaker 1: jump about you need to execute your blocking identification better

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Speaker 1: to limit free hitters. That's number one.

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Speaker 2: Number one.

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Speaker 1: Number two is something that I've been toying around with,

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Speaker 1: playing around with for the last couple of weeks, this

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Speaker 1: thought process. There needs to be a better counter punch

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Speaker 1: when the run game is taken away. I know that

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Speaker 1: Zach Robinson was specifically asked about this in his presser

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Speaker 1: and he said that he feels good about the counter

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Speaker 1: punches that he has within the scheme. But I guess

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Speaker 1: my question is, like where have those been in the

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Speaker 1: last like two games because the run game was taken

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Speaker 1: away from this team and they couldn't do anything.

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Speaker 2: Off of it.

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Speaker 1: It felt like they couldn't do any.

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Speaker 2: You need a stronger CounterPunch, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Stronger CounterPunch, and then number three controlled time of possession.

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Speaker 1: I think that one is self explanatory within like this

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Speaker 1: run game conversation. But when the Falcons are in step

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Speaker 1: with an opponent or even ahead, I feel like oftentimes

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Speaker 1: offensively they flow better. It's when they're having to work

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Speaker 1: from behind that things go from kind of bad to

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Speaker 1: worse and you're just kind of hoping and you get

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Speaker 1: into these like four minute drills, or you're having to

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Speaker 1: throw the ball in two quarters, like in a third

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Speaker 1: and a fourth quarter, all you're doing is throwing the

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Speaker 1: ball and you can't rely on the run and it

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Speaker 1: becomes this like lopsided things. So those are those are

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Speaker 1: my three things that I think the Falcons need to

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Speaker 1: clean up. And yes, all three of those things are offensively.

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Speaker 2: You want to throw it to me.

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Speaker 1: Yep, take it away, Aran. What are your three things

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Speaker 1: that you need to see from the Falcons to show

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Speaker 1: that they're righting the ship?

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Speaker 2: Oh toy, I'm so glad you asked, you're welcome. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna throw a defensive point in here for my number one. Okay,

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Speaker 2: defending the run because jeff Olbrick touched on this Wednesday

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Speaker 2: the traditional non traditional runs and run windows. He says

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Speaker 2: he has to be safer in non traditional areas, and

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Speaker 2: I'd like to see that so another Christian McCaffrey slashing

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Speaker 2: doesn't happen against this Falcons defense, especially.

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Speaker 1: With Jonathan Taylor coming down in the next two weeks.

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Speaker 2: That was a great point you pointed out with him

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Speaker 2: being on that Colt's offense, and it's like, you can't

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Speaker 2: have that happen again, right, So even if it improved

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Speaker 2: from one week to another, like old Brick mentioned, it

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Speaker 2: still needs to get better.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: My second one is the offense needs to execute better.

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Speaker 2: Overall the amount of times we've heard the word execute,

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Speaker 2: I hate that I have said it myself, but here

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Speaker 2: we are because it's true. It includes your point when

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Speaker 2: it comes to id and counterpunching better, but also everything

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Speaker 2: else because then that leads to my final and third

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Speaker 2: point that ties the two together and also circles back

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Speaker 2: to the top of the show. We love of call

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Speaker 2: back moment.

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Speaker 1: We love a full circle moment.

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Speaker 2: Fine consistency across the board, just like but Jean Robinson said.

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Speaker 1: It's like they're the only consistency is inconsistency.

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Speaker 4: And not for them, but just in general, right, But

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Speaker 4: that that is how I feel like this fan base

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Speaker 4: has has felt and until you can kind of show

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Speaker 4: this fan base.

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Speaker 1: That you can play at a consistent level week in

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Speaker 1: and week out in a league that like you have

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Speaker 1: to in order to see your ultimate success flourish. Like

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Speaker 1: I don't really know what else there is to say

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Speaker 1: beyond that.

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Speaker 2: Jake Matthews was asked, how do you get back to

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Speaker 2: regulated emotions because right now it's high high low lows,

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Speaker 2: Like it's not there's no in between. We're not like,

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Speaker 2: oh okay, that was fine, There's been none of that.

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Speaker 2: And he point blank said, you have to win. Winning

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Speaker 2: solves everything.

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Speaker 1: It does.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is there anything you'd like to add after that

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Speaker 2: kind of a note?

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Speaker 1: Honestly, no, maybe just like a programming note for next week.

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Speaker 1: We are leaving for Germany, which I'm very excited about.

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Speaker 1: Tara and I need to sit down and like even

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Speaker 1: get together our own like we'll probably have like twelve

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Speaker 1: hours of time to ourselves that we can go and

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Speaker 1: explore some places in Germany. So if anybody has any

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Speaker 1: recommendations for places we can go hang out in Berlin,

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Speaker 1: let us know please. But hubs, yes, and pubs, all

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Speaker 1: the pubs. So we will probably end up recording this

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Speaker 1: show before we leave for Germany, so we'll keep you

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Speaker 1: updated on kind of all of those things. But that's

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Speaker 1: probably the plan. It'll still run on Friday, but it

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Speaker 1: may just be a little bit more of a Wednesday

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Speaker 1: flate of information that we have to give you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it'll still be the Friday five on Friday, and

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Speaker 2: other than that, make sure you're keeping up with all

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Speaker 2: the content on Atlanta Falcons dot com. In the meantime,

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Speaker 2: there will be a pregame show on Sunday an hour

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Speaker 2: before kickoff on the Atlanta Falcons YouTube channel. Otherwise, the

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Speaker 2: Falcons Patriots game is scheduled for one pm at Julette

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Speaker 2: Stadium on CBS. And I hope everyone has a safe,

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Speaker 2: happy and scary Halloween weekend doing

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